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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlie do to spoil the evening when he tells Alice that he likes her?

2. How does Charlie decide to celebrate his raise at the bakery?

3. How does Charlie pretend to be a student at the college once his IQ hits 100?

4. What does Charlie build for Algernon in his own furnished apartment?

5. What are the two categories of patients at the Warren State Home and Training School?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does one of Charlie's old classmates at Beekman say to Charlie when he tries to talk to her?

2. Why is Charlie fired from his job at the bakery?

3. Why is Charlie so understanding about the hostile attitude that his friends at the bakery have towards him as his intelligence is raised?

4. What causes Charlie to get upset with Burt during one of their sessions together?

5. What flash-back memory does Charlie have on his plane ride to Chicago?

6. What happens when Algernon is put back into his original maze when he and Charlie return to the lab?

7. What is Professor Nemur most upset about when Charlie returns to the lab after living in his own apartment?

8. Why did Norma's father refuse to let her have the dog she was promised if she did well on her history test?

9. What did Charlie want to have happen as he ran away from the angry mob in the park after a woman came on to him?

10. What area of expertise does Charlie showcase before the conference in Chicago begins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Competition and fair-play is a major theme that is found in many different scenes of this book. What are some of those scenes, and what affect do they have on the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Dreams are a very important and symbolic part of this story-line. What are some of these dreams, and why are they so significant to the course of the plot?

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